Allegiance

The following entry used to be the story for the S’pore Polytechnic Creative Writing Competition, but, as will be seen, its a little bit too long (the limit was a thousand words.) So there.
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Allegiance
Pale dawn filled the yawning sky. The sun, wreathed in pale wispy clouds, rose in the east, and a silky topaz light [...]

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Unbent

The cold rain was falling outside, and the windows rattled with the force of the wind. Tiny shards of rainwater slid silently down the clear glass. The rains were in the height of their intensity in this time of the year. To Jacob it seemed merely a portent of darker things to come.
At least it [...]

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Awash

Music awashes me in emotion.
Melodies drift like eternal clouds towards the amalgamation of vision.
Harmony penetrates the soul and drowns it in the sweetest liquid bliss.
Music is like the sea; it carries you wherever it may deign to go. The waves of harmony are strong yet gentle, the salt-flecked air cool on wet skin. Music draws [...]

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Stony Waters

John McFarlane was an old man. He had seen eighty summers, and life held little promise for him now. He watched his granddaughter come to him, smiling prettily as she approached, and held out his frail arms to wrap her in a feeble embrace. The sweet child knew not to hug him too tightly; his [...]

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The Swordsman

Perhaps the plain had once been verdant with grassy fields. Perhaps it had once been tranquil and serene, the only sounds the rustling of the leaves and the soft cries of birds.
The grass had been trampled under the boots of a hundred thousand marching warriors. Thousands of braziers obscured the battlefield in pungent smokes, dulling [...]

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2 Evanescent

I am the earth, andHe is my soul.
I am his, through and through.
I danced with him in the summer, protected him in winter. I fended off a thousand weary wounds that came his way. We were one in the deep fragrant grasses on the high plains of infinity, alone underneath my sky, blue as the [...]

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1 Evanescent

I am a cloud, andShe is the blue sky.
We danced together in the light of countless suns. The mountains were our playground, the plains, our rest. We stood in the tall grasses, feeling the wet earth beneath our feet. Feeling the life that crawls through the earth. I was life, and she was earth. We [...]

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Christmas

Morning came to the trenches, obscured by the rising smoke of the heat of last night’s battle. The cold pale sun rose over the distant forest, over the barbed wire, casting the first rays of illumination over the dead no-man’s land that lay between the perimeters of the enemy camps.
Wind cooled the brow of John [...]

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

This year has been quite a year in terms of cinema-going. I can confidently say that I’ve seen more movies on the silver screen this year than in any other year, hell, even the last three years combined.
The latest Big Thing to come our way is, of course, the Tim Burton adaptation of Roald Dahl’s [...]

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Looking for Something

Tony missed his brother so much.
Tony still remembered standing on the verandah, sniffling, as Mom gave Gary a last, tearful hug before he went away, smart as ever in his blue uniform. He had been five then, smaller than Rikki, their terrier. Mom had hugged him too, tightly, and tried hard to hide her tears. [...]

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Downcast

She sat by the window, thinking of injustice. Thinking of unfairness, of hurt, of brokenness of spirit. Of all the terrible plagues of the soul that have infested human minds and hearts since the day we first gained the gift of knowledge. She wallowed in the tortruous cycle of inexplicable guilt and inscrutable anger, raging [...]

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Truncate

Suddenly the deluge of work strikes the quiet buffs of the banks, like a stormcloud from a blue horizon. One moment, a day clear as any, wild daisies dancing beneath a sky unfettered by cloud or kite, the next, vast white wreaths of wispy torment rush towards the lone man, a calvacade of celestial battalions, [...]

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Dark City

Vars didn’t know how long he sat there, rocking back and forth on his knees, wrestling with emotions that bewildered and frightened him. He knew that in that vital moment he had lost control of long-suppressed feelings that had haunted him in the depths of countless nights. Only by the primal instinct of self-preservation could [...]

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Dark Jungle

Indecision.
Vars stared at Kaa, not knowing how to proceed. Vars felt a throbbing in his heart, thought terrible thoughts about the deadly tangled mass of death that seethed beneath his feet, so far down.
Vars felt a rising desperation. Why had Kaa even led them here, if he had known Demotrova had gone down to what [...]

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Dark Past

The Dark City was always a salve against the light. Where light could not reach, the domain of the restless soul dwelt in tormented agonies of a squandered past.
Vars had lived the Dark City for three days. Three days a silent marauder of the deep dark places of the world, in the bowels of an [...]

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Dark Night

Dark night, dark city.
The evening sun on the chrome glint of durasteel cast the Imperial District in a sublime orange glow, augmented by the brilliant variegated lights of a thousand sparkling windows. Soon night would settle, a false night erased by the brilliance of Coruscant’s afterglow.
Coruscant had never been ugly from above. Above, where the [...]

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Feel

A golden day morning soothes the soul. A brilliant blue sky beckons; wind teases, dancing the curtains into messy piles, and freedom for a free day calls. The refulgent sun in the dawning empyrean glory sits comfortably in a perch on the clouds, spreading its mirth upon all life, casting hope into impoverished caverns, bringing [...]

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That’s Not Life, That’s Us!

Note: This entry is entirely ficticious, as are all characters. And the opinions expressed are definitely NOT that of the author’s.
You ever got the feeling you had to do something? Something you don’t usually do? Well, I’ve got that feeling right now. It’s really strong and I don’t really know why, but I mean, I’ve [...]

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